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Deane, Charles

author, was born Nov. 10, 1813, in Biddeford, Maine. He was an antiquarian writer of Cambridge, who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation; John Smith's True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens of early American literature. He died Nov. 13, 1889, in Cambridge, Mass.

DEANE, GARDNER ANDRUS ARM- STRONG, soldier, was born June 23, 1840, in Franklin, Mass. He served through the civil war; and received the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1891 he accepted the position of land commissioner of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, and Little Rock and Fort Smith railroads, at Frankfort, Kan.

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